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The Complete Guide to Becoming A Funeral Home Manager
The real pay, real path, and real daily work of managing a funeral home - so you can decide if it's right for you before you invest a single dollar in training.
by Alumigogo Books
Chapter 1: What Does a Funeral Home Manager Actually Do?
You are in your office at 8:14 on a Tuesday morning. The coffee is fresh, you've just opened the email from the crematory confirming that yesterday's cremation is complete and the urn is ready for pickup, and that's when the phone rings. It's the night nurse from a local hospice. A patient passed at 7:47 AM. The family has requested your services, and can you take care of the removal? This is not an unusual call. You make a quick note, hang up, and then walk over to your fleet scheduling board - a simple whiteboard on the wall - and confirm that you have a removal technician available. Within forty-five minutes, one of your team is on the road with the van, and the family has been contacted with the next steps. You just started your day, and you've already completed your most time-sensitive task.
What is this job, really? A Funeral Home Manager is the person who runs the business end of a funeral home while also supervising the operations side. You are not just the person who greets the family and arranges the casket. You are the person responsible for making sure the whole machine works - from the moment a death is called in to the moment the family walks out with the death certificates and the thank-you notes. If you are considering this career, you need to understand that it is two jobs in one